The evolution of web designs is a non stop process with the happenings of eventual revolution in between. Lately, the websites have been evolved by a revolutionary incoming of Flat designs. The emphasis of Flat designs is specially on the simplicity of shapes and typography. The overall aesthetic and eye catching structure of these designs can be very useful in websites for getting good permanent returning visits.
Websites using WordPress in particular have been highly induced by these kind of designs. Designers seem to construct new WordPress themes in Flat designs specially due to the increasing demand by the public. The new responsive flat WordPress themes are capable to adapt different resolutions, thus works perfectly fine in tablets and other mobile devices. The retina display in these Flat themes makes the images look more sharper than ever before giving a more natural and beautiful feel to the website.
The strongest support for Flat Design so far comes from the launch of Apple iOS 7, which focuses on flat UI as well giving the mobile OS a much cleaner look than previous versions of the OS.
In this post, we will look into a useful list of 25+ Amazing Premium Flat WordPress Themes that represent the best of flat design.
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Emerald – Responsive One-Page WordPress Theme ($40)
Features:
- Responsive design with Parallax effect
- Advanced theme option panel
- Drag & drop page builder with visual composer
- Unlimited colors
- You can add your own background images to every page sections
- Metro Flipboard slider – build exclusively for Emerald
Designy: A Design-Led Business WordPress Theme ($40)
Features:
- Child theme supplied
- Client logos custom post type–supports links/no links
- Our Team custom post type with masonry layout
- Portfolio custom post type with gallery functionality, built in
- Homepage item custom post type, create your homepage with this versatile full featured editor
- Show/Hide client logos on ANY page
- Full control of colours and font sizes and fonts
- General template text translatable via theme options
- Debadged theme options (no reference to MeanThemes)
- Minified JavaScript files for increased performance, we provide un-compressed versions of the 2 core files if you want to tweak functionality.
- Google Analytics
- Show/hide author information
- Show/Hide social icons in footer
- Centre logo & navigation
- Centre logo for mobile view only
- Turn sharing on/off across posts, pages or portfolio
- Share via Twitter, including your username
Naong – Premium Business WordPress Themes ($45)
Features:
- Responsive designs to smaller screens
- Drag and drop page builder.
- 3 Predefined Home Page template.
- Unlimited color options
- 3 slider option, super easy configuration
- 2D slider flexslider
- 3D slider slicebox
- Camera slideshow
- Social share on each single post.
- Filterable portfolio, with combination of 2, 3, or 4 columns layout
- Portfolio item with hover effect or classic.
- Well structured CSS
- Well- documented
- Fully compatible for all major browsers
- Valid xhtml 1.0 transitional, please check
- Translation ready, default .po and default .po file available.
Glider • Clean & Powerful Flat Stylish Theme ($45)
Features:
- Excellent page builder
- 960 Vector icons
- 7 Layouts and all blocks
- Woo commerce
Forest – A Flat and Bold Portfolio WordPress theme ($40)
Features:
- Responsive design from Head to Footer
- Optimized for retina display
- Powered by StagFramework, a light yet powerful theme options panel
- Full localization support ( .po/.mo files included )
- In-built StagShortcode generator
- In-built SEO settings
- Custom widgets ( Twitter, Flickr, custom page and others )
Lambo – Premium Photography Theme ($45)
Features:
- Clean, modern design can be used for any type of website
- Fully responsive
- Built with HTML5 and CSS3
- Unlimited colors
- bbPress Ready
- Customizable background image
- Custom background pattern
- Advanced option panel
- 3 Header styles
- Turn ON/OFF responsivness
- Strong focus on typography, usability and overall user-experience
FlatPack – MultiPurpose Business WordPress Theme ($55)
Features:
- 100% Fully responsive WordPress theme for Mac, PC, tablet and mobile devices
- Fully customizable with a vast amount of color options available
- eCommerce ready
- Many font choices
- Translation-ready
- Full width and boxed layouts
- Choose from a blog preset or widget-driven homepage layout
- Sidebar layout options
- Super-powerful slider
- Social icons included
- WordPress 3.5, fully-tested
- Great SEO base, built-in
Metrofy WP – Responsive Multi-Page & One-Page Theme ($40)
Features:
- Custom theme color
- Custom background
- New links block. See example
- More header icons
- Support for bigger logos
- Full width post template
PrimoNews – Premium Magazine Theme ($45)
Features:
- Clean, modern design can be used for any type of website
- Fully responsive
- Built with HTML5 and CSS3
- Unlimited colors
- Front-end editor
- Translation support including .po and .mo files
- Unbranded advanced theme options panel
- Post sharing box with social icons13 Custom widgets
- Working contact form
- Cross browser support
- Twitter- integrated
- Strong focus on typography, usability and overall user-experience
- 100+ Google fonts
Hurry | Responsive & Retina Theme ($35)
Features:
- 100% responsive and retina-ready
- WordPress 3.5 ready
- Unique home page layout (2 available)
- Super easy installation & setup
- Premium support and documentation
- Cool theme options
- Infinite scrolling (oh yeah !)
- Theme-ready for sharing (plugged to Twitter, Dribbble, Facebook, Flickr, Pinterest)
- Main shortcodes included (check them out in the live preview)
- Cool CSS3 animations
- Gallery included
- Created for readability
Showy – Bold & Flat Portfolio ($35)
Features:
- Responsive
- Special CSS3 flip effect (fall back for older browsers and touch screens)
- Filterable portfolio
- Homepage portfolio shows 6 at most with link to full portfolio
- One, Two or three column portfolio
- Simple & clean layout
- Fully working blog (Image, gallery, video, quote, link, aside)
- Special single portfolio item page
Arto – A Flat & Responsive Multipurpose Theme ($45)
Features:
- New flat design style
- Fully-responsive design
- Layered PSD files for easy customization
- Wide and boxed versions
- Advanced theme option panel
- HTML5 & CSS3
- Dark and light theme skins
- Unlimited color skins
- Customize everything!
- 500 + Google fonts
- 9 Ready pages and templates – Home Page, Portfolio (3 templates), Blog, Contact, About Us, Our Services, 404 Page
- Tones of custom shortcodes
- Custom widgets
- SEO-ready
- Detailed documentation
- Child theme
- Flexible and multipurpose
- Clean and unique design
Weald – Flat Responsive Portfolio WordPress theme ($40)
Features:
- Fully responsive
- Easy to use single page layout (everything works automatically based on the main navigation)
- Unlimited color schemes
- Portfolio with multiple categories
- Ajax pagination
- Post formats
- Featured images
- 20+ shortcodes
- 250+ icons using Entypo
- Unique slider generator with Nemus Slider
- Retina-ready
- Translation-ready
- Great and fast support
Spruce | A Refreshing Journal & Portfolio Theme ($40)
Features:
- Custom header backgrounds (full width, pattern or color) – also an option to add a single site-wide header image.
- Custom accent color pickers on each page & post.
- Compatible with the free Bean Portfolio Plugin.
- Compatible with the free Bean Shortcodes Plugin.
- Compatible with the free Bean Tweets Plugin.
- Clean, bold, & timeless design
- Left and right sidebar switcher on any default page template.
- Fully responsive build
- Retina assets/CSS
- Built with HTML5 & CSS3
- More posts can be loaded functionality
- Custom audio, gallery, video
- Embedded video post formats
- Related posts
- SEO optimized
Modern Metro – Responsive WordPress Theme ($40)
Features:
- Metro, modern UI, tile based layout
- Advanced responsivness – two completly different layouts: horizontal with column based text and vertical layout for mobile.
- Easy to manage tile manager for every post, page and gallery item tile
- Unlimited colors and style possibilites that may be changed with few clicks
- Possiblity to set multiple featured images for each page/post that will be sliding on tiles or slider.
- Cross browser – supports all major browsers.
- Easy and clean admin panel
- Build in blog and gallery page system
- Automated share panel
- Quick start video and documentation guide.
- Advanced typography
Vetro – A Flat UI WordPress Theme ($40)
Features:
- Clean, modern design can be used for any type of website
- Fully-responsive
- Built with HTML5 and CSS3
- Custom background image
- Custom background pattern
- Designed using Designmodo Flat Free kit
- Advanced option panel
Anubis – Responsive Portfolio & Blog Theme ($40)
Features:
- Ultra responsive design
- Extensive theme options
- Shortcode generator
- Accent color control
- Sortable team & portfolio
- Full localisation support (contains .po/.mo files)
- 3 Custom widgets (Twitter, Flickr, social profile)
- Revolution slider included
- Isotope portfolio filter included
- Fancybox included
Unlimited – Flexible Responsive Business Theme ($45)
Features:
- Visual composer – Style the entire theme from within the option panel.
- 100% Responsive
- Revolution Slider
- Layout builder
- Short-code manager
- WordPress core resizing
Aeolus – Corporate Minimalist WordPress Theme ($40)
Features:
- Custom post type for slideshow
- Support WordPress 3.x menu system
- Post thumbnail support with dynamic image resizing
- Custom page templates
- Portfolio page templates with Pop-up Lightbox (support for image and Video type) with categories filter
- User-friendly shortcodes
- Translation-ready (available .po file)
- Widgetable sidebar
Octavus Responsive Portfolio WP Theme ($40)
Features:
- Responsive HTML5/CSS3 design
- Built with Bootstrap 2.2.2
- Retina-ready
- Unlimited colors (Integrated with WordPress built-in theme customizer)
- Integration with built-in WP theme customization
- 600+ Google fonts
- 55+ custom shortcodes
- Shortcodes generator, also available in fullscreen mode
- Supports different post types: ‘aside’, ‘gallery’, ‘link’, ‘image’, ‘quote’, ‘video’ (even self-hosted movies!), ‘audio’, ‘standard’
- Custom widgets
- Ready for internationalization
Acute | Beautiful & Responsive Blogging Theme ($40)
Features:
- Compatible with the free Bean Shortcodes Plugin
- Compatible with the free Bean Tweets Plugin
- Clean, minimal & modern design appeal
- Light & dark styles included
- Brilliant CSS3 animations
- Clean & suave typography
- Fully responsive build
- Retina assets/CSS
- SEO optimized
- Customizable 404 Page included.
- Widget area generator
- Powerful Bean Form Builder plugin
- Flexible theme options panel
Good Bones: The WP SandBox Theme ($40)
Features:
- WP slider revolution
- The Elegant Drag and Drop Builder plugin (GPL/GNU)
- The Elegant shortcodes plugin (GPL/GNU)
- WP JackBox–Lightbox
- Foundation icons (GPL/GNU)
- Responsive, touch-friendly advanced scroller
- Responsive multilevel mobile menu (GPL/GNU)
- Google web fonts
Alfa Responsive OnePage WordPress Theme ($40)
Features:
- Full screen slider
- Full screen video
- Fully responsive layout
- Isotope Gallery With Fancybox (Youtube, Vimeo, Metacafe, Dailymotion, Twitvid, Twitpic, Instagram… )
- Fully working AJAX/PHP contact form
- Parallax effects
- Single page
- Creative design
- Built With HTML5 and CSS3
- Google web fonts
- Easy setup
Hypertext – Flat Portfolio WordPress Theme ($40)
Features:
- Fully responsive design
- Drag and drop unique page builder
- Revolutionary slider, fully integrated
- Valid HTML5/CSS3
- Filterable portfolio with isotobe
- Translation-ready .po/.mo files included
- Many post media types
- Many portfolio media types
- Extensive theme options
Flat – Responsive Portfolio Theme ($35)
Features:
- Responsive design w/1070px and 480px breakpoints
- Retina ready w/optional retina logo upload field and vectorized icons
- Collapsible menu
- Interactive social icons
- Full-screen, responsive and touch-ready slider
- 2 homepage layouts
Metrolium ($45)
Features:
- Responsive design & retina-ready
- 2D & 3D premium sliders
- Real-time WP customizer
- jQuery sortable portfolio
Fuse – Responsive Portfolio & Blog WordPress Theme ($45)
Features:
- Ultra responsive design
- Retina-ready (provided you upload pictures at least 1000px wide)
- Ultra smooth scrolling
- Extensive theme options based on our awesome WpGrade Framework
- Multilingual translation ready and .po/.mo files for localisation included ( WPML )
- W3C HTML5/ CSS3 Valid
ThemeTastic Flat Responsive WordPress Theme ($45)
Features:
- Compatible with the latest WordPress version
- Responsive layout (Tested on iPad, iPhone and Android) – can be turned off with one click!
- Build content easily with visual composer and/or shortcodes
- Custom build theme & page options
- Localizable with .po .mo translation files
- WPML multi-language plugin support
- Unique 3D slider caption effect which can, of course, be deactivated
- 100’s of retina icons included for crisp graphics on every device
- Various post formats with image, slideshow, Youtube & Vimeo video support
- Many different portfolio/blog layout customization options
- Unlimited portfolios
- Unlimited sidebars
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